Toxoplasmosis can masquerade as a variety of different diseases. Sometimes, a patient may be misdiagnosed with one of these diseases when in fact, the underlying root cause of symptoms is toxoplasmosis. This is important because if toxoplasmosis is a curable disease (it is), then it can be helpful to the patient to know that the underlying problem is treatable and curable. Below are some of the diseases that are regularly associated with toxoplasmosis in scientific research.
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Lyme Disease
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Parkinson’s Disease
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Epilepsy
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Autism / ASD
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Mood Disorders (depression, anxiety, bipolar, etc.)
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Mental Health Problems (psychosis, schizophrenia, etc.)
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Cancer
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Glioma
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Neurodegenerative Diseases (dementia, multiple sclerosis, etc.)
In the scientific literature, there are a number of health problems that are so heavily correlated with toxoplasmosis that it challenges basic assumptions about how this dis-ease works and how it should be treated. Toxoplasmosis is a common infection, but many people who have it never show symptoms of the disease. Or, people will only begin to show symptoms of disease after the immune system is compromised in some way by another disease-causing pathogen, exposure to toxins, or as a result of an emotional stressor or trauma.
Toxoplasmosis is a potentially fatal complication in bone marrow stem cell transplant patients. The T. gondii infection is frequently reported in the scientific literature as a complication of bone marrow stem cell transplants,, a thought-provoking fact that deserves a bit more attention in terms of bone health and how to overcome bone-related health problems in the first place. Toxoplasmosis clearly gravitates toward bone marrow and it can cause serious symptoms of disease if bone marrow health is compromised in some way, so we’ll elaborate on this thought a bit more below for readers so that they can understand the importance of certain supplements and treatments that specifically target bone tissues and bone marrow to overcome toxoplasmosis.
In most cases, toxoplasmosis is regarded as a disease of the brain and nervous system, but the fact that bone marrow stem cell transplants are correlated with exacerbation of toxoplasmosis brings to mind some thoughts regarding toxic exposures that negatively impact the nervous system and the bone marrow tissues at the same time. Most people don’t realize that the nervous system (especially the tissues underlying the cortex in the brain) and the bone marrow tissues are regarded as the same tissue in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), for example. And though toxins like bromide or organophosphates are nearly ubiquitous in the ag industry in developed nations and people are exposed to them on a daily basis in relatively large quantities, Big Ag has been very diligent about preventing people from understanding that the two main systems of the body that are impacted by organophosphates and bromide are the bones and the nervous system. My step-father-in-law, a farmer, recently died at a very early age as a result of leukemia (and nearly constant exposure to organophosphates and bromide) while my biological father started suffering from strokes in his 60s for the same reason (he was also a farmer).
Diseases like dengue fever and other hemorrhagic fevers like ebola or yellow fever can produce hemorrhagic effects by taking up residence in the bone marrow where the natural blood-clotting factors in blood are hijacked by these and other pathogens. Interestingly, Traditional Chinese TCM unabashedly makes the connection between bone marrow and the brain. The brain, particularly the jelly-like substance underneath the cortex, is regarded as the Sea of Marrow and bone marrow and brain tissues are viewed as essentially the same substance. There are a number of ways to think about this bone-brain connection, but most of our readers are familiar with conventional medicine, so I’ll briefly note some of the less obscure connecting points that relate to conventional medicine and toxoplasmosis to make it easier to understand this Sea-of-Marrow-brain-and-bone connection.
One important link that’s fairly well-known among doctors is the fact that osteoporosis (bone degeneration) often happens prior to a diagnosis of dementia. In other words, osteoporosis and dementia are strongly correlated. Be aware that many years ago, dementia and schizophrenia were the same disease. Autism and schizophrenia were once the same disease too. In other words, doctors viewed all of these diseases (schizophrenia, dementia, and autism / ASD) as the same disease, but, over time, they became separated out according to age groups and thus treatment trajectory (autism / ASD kids live at home with parents and take chronic medications, young adult and middle-aged schizophrenia patients are sent to mental health facilities, and older dementia patients are sent to long-term care facilities). Osteoporosis is often treated with bisphosphonate drugs that are known to cause dementia. This throws light on the idea that organophosphate exposure (or exposure to bromide, which is, at times, used in place of organophosphates in agriculture) can lead to symptoms that look, to doctors, like autism / ASD in kids, like schizophrenia in young and middle-aged adults, and like dementia in older adults.
Again, organophosphate and bromide exposure is nearly ubiquitous in the developed world, but the mediating factor that causes organophosphate or bromide-related mental health problems may or may not relate to underlying pathogens that cause disease when bone marrow becomes weak and sick. It’s true that organophosphates and bromide-containing insecticides specifically target the insect nervous system which is remarkably similar to the human nervous system. And we know that these toxins are bio-accumulative. Organophosphates, in particular, are integrated into bone tissues such that the bone marrow and bone matrix suffers and become weak. Perhaps T. gondii infection takes advantage of weakened bone tissues or perhaps weak bones reduce the electricity throughout the body and the nervous system. In any case, there are important, scientifically documented relationships among these various things that might be worth considering for those who wish to overcome serious diseases.
Indeed, toxoplasmosis is not the only disease-causing pathogen that can cause nervous system dysfunction and serious physical or mental health problems as a result of bone tissue-disruption.
Organophosphates can trigger seizures that are misdiagnosed as epilepsy. Detoxifying the body and removing the source of organophosphate exposure can sometimes cure epilepsy. But epilepsy is also often caused by tapeworm eggs (neurocysticercosis) in the brain, a treatable condition that cures the seizure disorder. Neurocystericercosis is the underlying cause of epilepsy in about 30% of cases. An unknown number of patients suffer from organophosphate or bromide exposure that may be insidiously causing seizures. Organophosphates, for example, are acetylcholinesterase inhibitors that can cause cholinergic stimulation and a wide array of nervous system symptoms (including, as just one example, Parkinson’s disease symptoms).
Exposure to lead, another known toxin in the environment, can weaken the body in a particular way as to make it vulnerable to toxoplasmosis infection. In reality, there are a large number of toxins that can weaken the body such that pathogens can easily take hold. Or the immune system may simply be weakened by another disease-causing pathogen that primes the bone marrow or the nervous system tissues for infection. Indeed, the immune system is not, itself, an intelligent “system” in the body, but rather it reacts to the milieu created by the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system. A significant or prolonged period of stress or emotional trauma can weaken the immune system in a manner that allows the T. gondii pathogen to gain a foothold.
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Electricity, Bones, and Nervous System Tissues
Yet another important consideration in terms of the bone-brain connection is the fact that every cell in the body is electrical, including brain cells. Bones, interestingly, are a source of electricity throughout the body as well. Without this source of electricity from the bones, we suffer from serious diseases because cells throughout the body can’t recharge with fresh electrons when they become depleted (electrons are a basic unit of electricity). The calcium-phosphate matrix of bone tissues has a piezoelectric response whenever there’s pressure put on the bone tissues. If you go for a walk, the bones in your legs bend ever-so-slightly with each step that you take, producing tiny electrical impulses via the piezoelectricity of the calcium-phosphate bone matrix.
Bones are meant to be flexible, yet strong such that when we walk, jump, or run, the bones produce small electrical impulses that feed the cells throughout the body. Organophosphate insecticides (our bodies require inorganic, NOT organic phosphates / organophosphates), disrupt the natural matrix of bone tissues which, in turn, disrupts the flexibility and the natural piezoelectricity of our bones. After organophosphate exposure, the bones become non-flexible, yet very dense – the bones look great on x-ray, but in fact they are prone to fracture. The lack of piezoelectricity in our bones can cause health to decline exponentially in various ways.
Brain health is directly impacted by the lack of electricity coming from the non-flexible bones as a result of toxic overload with organophosphates or due to vitamin K2 deficiency which can cause both osteoporosis and arteriosclerosis. When the arteries in the neck become clogged, blood can’t reach the brain. Vitamin K2 / Menaquinone-7 is a vitamin that was only recently discovered so a lot of our readers are not familiar with it. Vitamin K2 / MK-7 supplementation improves both brain and bone health, so it’s important to take at least 600 mcg per day.
Bisphosphonates
Interestingly, Toxoplasma gondii can produce higher bone-mineral density in bones according to one study. Unfortunately, about 24.2% of the Toxoplasma-infected patients in this study that I’m referencing were being given bisphosphonate drugs for osteoporosis, a confounding variable. Bisphosphonates are drugs. They are repurposed, rebranded organophosphates that cause bones to develop high mineral density that makes the bones inflexible and no longer piezoelectric. Bisphosphate treatment makes bones look good on an x-ray because bisphosphonates increase bone density even as the risk of a specific type of femur fracture increases significantly. And patients who are taking bisphosphate drugs are at high risk of developing dementia (read: schizophrenia and also autism / ASD, as well as other mental health problems). I should also mention that a lot of patients who take bisphosphonates are older, but kids are sometimes given dexamethasone for various health reasons – dexamethasone was widely prescribed during the COVID pandemic, for example – that weakens their bone tissues such that they suffer from early osteoporosis. Doctors then prescribe bisphosphates to kids who develop osteoporosis as a result of dexamethasone treatment which, in turn, can lead to severe mental illness, epilepsy, severe bone fractures that resist healing, or neurodegenerative diseases.
Bisphosphonate exposure may also lead to toxoplasmosis infection, though the scientists who are studying toxoplasmosis obviously do not always know very much about confounding variables like bisphosphonates. Did the bisphosphonates make the bone tissue vulnerable to infection? Does toxoplasmosis actually increase bone mineral density in bones? Probably not, but this is the best and most inspired material that we have to work with right now. Doctors generally don’t realize that bisphosphonates are organophosphates and doctors also generally don’t know that bisphosphonates are not healing the bones, but rather weakening them and also weakening the entire physiology of their patients.
Of course, the nervous system is directly impacted in a negative way by organophosphate / bisphosphonate exposure even without considering the role of lessened piezoelectricity coming from sick bone tissues. But toxins like organophosphates, lead, bromide, etc. are an important consideration for anyone who is trying to overcome a serious health problem like toxoplasmosis that seems to be coming from a pathogenic infection in the nervous system and bone tissues (or other areas of the body, for that matter). While the underlying pathogen might seem to be the biggest issue, in fact, toxic overload might weaken the body in the first place, making it possible for the pathogen to take hold and produce symptoms of disease.
The bone marrow is a place where Toxoplasma and other pathogens like Borrelia burgdorferi (the pathogen that causes Lyme disease) can hide and wait for opportunities to disseminate to other areas of the body during moments of vulnerability for patients. Diseased bone marrow can be an underlying cause for mental health issues like schizophrenia, depression, bipolar, dementia, or anxiety-related conditions. Lab results might not be able to pick up the presence of certain pathogens that hide-out in bone marrow which can create confusion for patients. Yet many of the treatments for toxin-overload and severe pathogenic infection can be administered without causing harm, so even if diagnostic tests are not accurate, a patient could try a course of treatment and simply see if it helps.
Epilepsy, neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease or Parkinson’s might develop as a result of the same underlying problem as Lyme symptoms, toxoplasmosis symptoms, schizophrenia, and severe mental illness: toxic overload and subsequent pathogenic infection. Case studies have shown that Toxoplasma gondii may be present in the bone marrow, but it does not show up in lab tests for the disease perhaps because of its ability to do molecular mimicry of human tissues. T. gondii and other pathogens can make themselves look almost identical to human tissues. Hence, a person with a latent, toxoplasmosis infection may have no symptoms at all and show no signs of infection in a lab report. Other pathogens like Coxsackievirus and Streptococcus pyogenes can hide and go undetected through the use of molecular mimicry as well. A person may never show signs of infection if they aren’t exposed to a triggering event like toxin exposure or emotional trauma. They may technically be host to an infection, but have no signs or symptoms and no ill effects from the pathogen living in their body. A triggering exposure to something toxic (be it emotional or physical) might set off symptoms of the infection that’s been there since birth or, at the very least, for many years. In this case, the goal is to reset the physiology of the body to put the infectious pathogen back into a state of latency. Perhaps said pathogen (T. gondii, Coxsackievirus, Streptococcus, etc.) even has a positive function in the ecology of the human body. Perhaps, in a state of relative latency, it performs some function that confers a benefit to the patient. But if it’s causing symptoms of disease and discomfort, patients have to be able to restore health to the body and to the mind.
Patients or loved ones may intuitively feel that there is something that triggered their symptoms. That something might be organophosphates, lead, bromide, heavy metals, etc. or any emotional trauma that lowers immune system response and changes body functioning. Influenza or the common cold might be enough to lower immune resistance in some people who are already susceptible. Grief and loss can cause Takotsubo syndrome, also known as Broken Heart Syndrome, which causes an actual physical change in the left ventricle of the heart. A broken heart (the physical alteration of a normal, healthy heart is literally more vulnerable to heart attack and heart disease. And grief and loss can sometimes even involve something additive or usually positive, like the birth of a baby (which directly relates to the loss of the lifestyle before the baby). Sometimes, our bodies are in a constant state of grief and loss as a result of childhood trauma that was never resolved (sexual abuse, for example, is an ongoing state of lost innocence until that trauma can be properly released and resolved using trauma-informed therapies or the sacred indigenous medicines like Ayahuasca or psilocybin mushrooms). Chronic or intense fear and anger can alter the physiology of the liver and the kidneys creating vulnerabilities in the physical body. Sometimes toxins are not actual, physical poisons. Having a boss who constantly demeans you might actually make your body sick and vulnerable to infection.
Autism / ASD and the autoimmune disease, Systemic Lupus Erythematosis (SLE), are strongly correlated with heavy metal toxicity. And heavy metal toxicity can cause other health problems like vulnerability to infection or tissue degeneration almost anywhere in the body. Treating the underlying infection might require the identification of pathogens and the offending toxin that makes the body vulnerable to infection. Patients may need to remove toxins from the bones and restore proper nutrients to the body’s tissues in order to heal properly. TCM treatments to restore balance to the body’s energy field is highly recommended once patients have managed to restore health to a certain point.
Recently when Lydian and I started researching organophosphate exposure, bone marrow became the focal point of our investigation because these toxic insecticides can take up residence in bone tissues, disrupting the normal crystalline structure of the bone to cause a specific type of bone weakness and a predisposition to bone marrow diseases including lymphoma, leukemia, myeloma, and other types of bone and blood cancers. Underlying bone marrow diseases, in turn, can lead to toxoplasmosis infection symptoms or other symptoms of infection. In any case, bone marrow disease and toxoplasmosis are strongly correlated. Heavy metal, organophosphate, and other toxic exposures and toxoplasmosis are strongly correlated. And heavy metal, organophosphate, and other toxic chemical exposures are strongly correlated with poor bone health.
In fact, lead and mercury and other heavy metals are often stored in bone tissues like organophosphates and they disrupt red blood cell production which seriously impacts human health. Calcium, after all, is an alkaline earth metal, so it makes sense that heavy metals would bioaccumulate in the bone tissues – this where metals naturally take up residence in the body. In terms of underlying infections that are causing serious diseases, it’s important for patients to know that the bone marrow and bone matrix is a site that needs attention. Chelation therapy with EDTA can remove heavy metals to cure certain instances of autism / ASD, schizophrenia, dementia, and various other manifestations of disrupted bone and brain health, but ionic foot baths can also help. Drinking cilantro tea with chlorella and doing infrared sauna sessions every day can also reduce one’s toxic load.
In the context of conventional medicine, bone marrow is not usually something that ends up on a patient’s radar unless they develop a bone marrow disease like leukemia. In the past, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome / CRPS was known as bone marrow edema, for example. Patients with this horrible chronic-pain syndrome and their doctors used to know that the pain was coming from fluid buildup in the bones. Despite the name change, CRPS today is still caused by the buildup of fluid inside the bone cavities, at least in the initial stages of the disease, and a few doctors in the world know this, but most doctors are clueless about it. Changing the name of the disease from bone marrow edema to CRPS made it much more difficult for doctors and for the patients themselves to identify the underlying origin of their extreme pain and inflammation, a clever trick that Big Pharma used to make it harder for people to find research about their own disease. CRPS is a disease that makes patients hugely dependent on the healthcare system. It is incredibly profitable. But in CRPS, is it the buildup of fluid in the bones or the neuropathy afflicting nervous system tissues that causes the most pain? It’s hard for patients to tease it apart.
Scientific studies have shown that in HIV / AIDs patients, Toxoplasma gondii causes noteworthy histological changes in bone marrow. Indeed, in these immunocompromised individuals, T. gondii is found within the cytoplasm of megakaryocytes, the giant bone marrow cells that are responsible for making platelets / thrombocytes. Platelets do many things in the body, but they’re most famous for their ability to promote clotting of the blood.
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Most of our readers are not HIV-infected toxoplasmosis carriers, but based on our experiences with HIV-positive clients, I would say that HIV is not what we’ve been taught. HIV is the icon for poor immune system function though, so studies that talk about toxoplasmosis infection in HIV patients demonstrate how this disease can wreak havoc on a body if the immune system is compromised in some way. What compromises the immune system might be much less dramatic than an HIV infection. For example, a person who lives within 50 to 100 miles of agricultural areas where crop-spraying with organophosphates is common might end up with organophosphates in bone tissue such that their bone tissue matrix is disrupted which leads to low levels of cellular electricity throughout the body. Heavy metal exposure via mercury dental fillings might create poor immune system function rivaling that of an HIV-positive patient. A person who eats fruits or vegetables (organic or not) that have been sprayed with organophosphates or bromide can easily develop a buildup of these insecticides in their bone tissues slowly over time. Or maybe a person is given bisphosphonates to treat osteoporosis. In any case, organophosphates and heavy metals are nerve agents in addition to bone-toxins (yet another obvious connecting point between the bone marrow and the Sea of Marrow in our brains in TCM) and, as toxicity develops slowly, any number of odd symptoms of disease might develop first. As bones are inundated with organophosphates, they stop being piezoelectric which impacts the entire physiology of the body. The nervous system would be impacted powerfully by a lack of electricity coming from the bones, but beyond that, is the problem of “intermediate syndrome”, a disease that is identical to myasthenia gravis in all ways except that in intermediate syndrome, the patient was exposed to a massive quantity of organophosphates in one big dose, while myasthenia gravis is regarded as an incurable disease that has no known cause. In fact, myasthenia gravis in at least some patients likely develops as a result of bio-accumulation of organophosphates in bone tissues.
It’s worth noting at this juncture, that patients with intermediate syndrome who are given plasmapheresis treatments often experience a full recovery. In intermediate syndrome, organophosphates are circulating in the blood after an acute exposure to a high dose of this toxin. Those with bioaccumulation of this toxin in their bone tissues might not experience the same immediate benefit from plasmapheresis, but it’s still worth mentioning this option to readers. Toxins can be removed from the body using special treatments and once the toxins are removed, it might be much easier to control certain types of infections that have hijacked the body. Indeed, without toxin-removal, it might, at times, be nearly impossible to overcome certain types of infection that cause disease states or mental illnesses that have been dubbed “incurable”.
There are many things that can disrupt the matrix of bone tissue and bone marrow. Organophosphates are just one example, but organophosphate exposure can, in theory, cause poor immunity. Bone marrow can become diseased in a very slow and insidious way. Some patients may develop bone marrow edema / Complex Regional Pain Syndrome / CRPS as the first symptom that something is wrong in the bone tissues. Other patients might develop leukemia. Still others might develop a nervous system issue or mental health problems. In recent scientific literature written after the bone-marrow-edema-name-change, CRPS symptoms began to be regarded as “neurogenic” and not bone-marrow-related at all. Yet, as we’ve just discussed, organophosphates are nerve agents in addition to their bioaccumulative nature in bone tissues. This is how organophosphates work to control insect infestations in crops, after all. But they simultaneously disrupt the bone matrix and bone marrow.
That being said though, there are scientific case studies that show that Toxoplasma gondii infection can produce serious health problems in people with normal immune system function. You don’t have to have HIV-infected immune-system function in order to suffer from a serious toxoplasmosis sequelae. When we look at case studies of immune-compromised patients, we’re looking at a health situation that can happen in average people who do not have HIV, but also, there are instances of toxoplasmosis infection that cause extreme health-related issues despite normal immune function. Nevertheless, it’s important for HiV-infected individuals to know about things like tetrasilver tetroxide, a form of colloidal silver that’s used to cure HIV and AIDS. Some people who are not HIV-infected may wish to use tetrasilver tetroxide to overcome toxoplasmosis or other types of infection that resist other forms of treatment.
Finally, we need to note that, vitamin K2 deficiency makes people especially vulnerable to organophosphate poisoning via a lack of calcium in the bones and unfortunately, vitamin K2 deficiency is nearly ubiquitous in the developed world due to the rise of GMO plants that require organophosphate treatments in order to survive. Cattle and other food-animals that are given organophosphate treatments to prevent fleas and other insect infestations also produce animal products that contain organophosphates.Indeed, organophosphates like glyphosate / RoundUp kill gut bacteria that once produced vitamin K2 in humans, as well as vitamin B9 (folate), and the various amino acids that are essential for the production of thyroid hormones and neurotransmitters like dopamine, noradrenaline, adrenaline, serotonin, and melatonin. It is this mechanism of action that makes glyphosate / RoundUp work as an herbicide. Other types of organophosphates act as insecticides on plants and food-animals that humans consume. When we consume organophosphates regularly without taking vitamin K2 / MK-7 and also detoxifying the body and removing the organophosphates from bones, our neurotransmitters become disrupted which leads inevitably to disease.
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Where the Shikimate Pathway Ends, Disease Begins
The shikimate pathway is known as the “metabolic tree with many branches”. The basic shikimate pathway is a biochemical process that plants and certain microorganisms go through to produce vitamin K2, vitamin B9, tryptophan, tyrosine, phenylalanine, shikimic acid, and more. Though humans aren’t able to naturally produce vitamin K2, vitamin B9 or the above listed amino acids or shikimic acid via the shikimate pathway, plants and certain microorganisms can. Humans used to have gut bacteria that would produce vitamin K2, for example, but most humans on the planet have been exposed to organophosphates that have killed those bacteria. So today, the only way to get vitamin K2 / Menaquinone-7 / MK-7 is from a supplement.
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Too Little Calcium in Bones, Too Much Calcium in the Blood
Vitamin K2 / MK-7 is the nutrient that ensures that calcium that is ushered into the blood supply by vitamin D makes it into the bone tissues. Without vitamin D (which is produced naturally in the body when the skin is exposed to sunlight without sunscreen to block the full-spectrum light), calcium cannot be absorbed from the intestines into the blood supply. But without vitamin K2, bones become calcium deficient (no matter how much calcium a person eats) and the blood supply, meanwhile, is flooded with calcium. Eventually, all that calcium in the blood supply starts to cause big problems in the body.
Vitamin D pushes calcium from the intestines into the blood supply so that calcium can find its way to other parts of the body. If there is not enough vitamin K2 in the body though, calcium may end up in soft tissues rather than in bones and teeth. Pineal gland calcification can occur. Breast calcifications can take shape as well as the calcification of other soft tissues when vitamin K2 is not present. A misdiagnosis of cancer is common once calcifications take shape in the body (calcifications look and seem a lot like tumors, after all). Pineal gland calcification can cause symptoms of severe mental illness and an inability for the patient to sync up with the natural rhythms of night and day.
Importantly, calcium in the blood supply inhibits the absorption of iodine. So, a person who is deficient in vitamin K2 but who takes a daily dose of vitamin D will have high levels of calcium in the blood supply or in soft tissues, but low levels of calcium in bone tissues and in teeth where the calcium belongs. And this person will inevitably be deficient in iodine as well as in vitamin K2 because high calcium levels in the blood supply inhibit absorption of iodine into the reproductive organs and thyroid gland. Iodine and vitamin K2 are like the immune system watchdogs. Iodine ensures that the blood and the organs are protected from pathogens while vitamin K2 ensures that bone, bone marrow, and the lymph cells and blood cells produced in the bone marrow are healthy and protected from pathogens as well.
If vitamin K2 isn’t present in adequate quantities in the body to take calcium out of the blood and put it into the bones, iodine and iron specifically won’t be able to get absorbed properly by the body. Iron metabolism is especially important, but we’ll talk about that more below. Calcium in the blood inhibits the absorption of iodine. Essentially, a person then becomes susceptible to a number of diseases that can affect nearly any system in the body. The bone marrow becomes a hiding place for pathogens. The gallbladder and the liver also become excellent hiding places for pathogens too.
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Summary
When a person develops a serious disease of any kind, panic sets in. In today’s world, most patients submit to their doctors at first (though some do actively resist doing their doctor’s advice) and it often isn’t until conventional medicine fails miserably that natural or alternative treatments start to seem like an actual option. When patients feel called to shift and begin looking at alternative treatments, it’s important that their model of medicines also shifts. An underlying infection may be the focal point for people who get lab results saying that an active infection exists even if symptoms are mild, but the idea that infection (especially a treatable infection) could be an underlying cause of schizophrenia or dementia might seem strange yet believable, but in fact, the focal point for many patients should be underlying toxins that weakened the immune system in a particular way. Disease is often caused by multiple things and treating the underlying causes slowly reduces symptoms. There is no magic bullet except, perhaps, a person’s willingness to continue learning about possible treatments (until the dis-ease resolves).
As we’ve discussed, lab results may not be accurate and in fact, often they’re false or at least misleading. A person who has a T. gondii infection may not have lab results to back up the fact that they have an infection and corresponding symptoms of the diease. Or a person who gets a lab result that says a T. gondii infection exists might become blinded by this data and believe (falsely) that T. gondii is the ultimate root cause of mental illness, CRPS, leukemia, or a neurological disease. Perhaps T. gondii is the root cause, but there may be toxins that make the body vulnerable to this disease. Most parasite infections take shape within the context of a weakened physiology. When the body is weakened by either toxic overload or nutrient depletion, infections can develop.
Even more challenging is the idea that pathogens can change shape. Some pathogens, like Streptococcus pyogenes, can mimic human tissues and they can take on bizarre forms in order to elude treatment with antibiotics. Pleomorphism is a problem in treating Helicobacter pylori, the Lyme disease bacteria, Toxoplasma gondii, and a large number of other pathogens. Indeed, there are theories about pleomorphism that suggest that one type of pathogen can actually transform into another type of pathogen. This theory, known as Terrain Theory, is usually applied within the context of alternative cancer treatments and pH levels in the body. Meanwhile, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, and various other models of medicine don’t focus on the pathogen itself, but rather on restoring the ecology of the body (within the context of the climate, stress level, and general environment surrounding the patient’s body).
Conventional medicine might acknowledge that the body is weakened through toxin exposure or nutrient depletion, but these issues are not a focal point unless they’re really obvious to a doctor (e.g. an emaciated child who’s been locked in a closet for a year with buckets of toxic chemicals arrives at a hospital for treatment). Conventional medicine does not acknowledge that within 1 year of giving birth, all mothers are at a heightened risk of heart attack due to Takotsubo syndrome (heart break syndrome) that changes the shape of the heart. To acknowledge such a fact would require that conventional medicine also acknowledges that giving birth is traumatic and it is always traumatic, even if it is also joyful. Conventional medicine doesn’t acknowledge that the body is impacted by strong emotions and that a strong emotion can actually change organ shape and organ physiology such that the body’s immune defenses are compromised.
Often a serious disease is caused by something that can be easily resolved if the offending agent is noticed and not automatically rejected because it doesn’t belong to the model of medicine that is most familiar to a patient. Neurological illness or chronic pain might stem from an abscessed tooth that has not yet started causing pain or a person with epilepsy might simply need to work with powerful antiparasitic treatments to get rid of tapeworm eggs that were able to make their way into the brain (perhaps because of a weakened immune system during an emotionally traumatic event or as a result of a toxic exposure). Dementia may be caused by an undiagnosed urinary tract infection / UTI. In a case like this, instead of treating the brain and dementia, we need to focus on the bladder and chronic UTIs.
For many of our health coaching clients, the most important thing that needs to change in order to heal the body is the mind. If you’ve been taught to look at a disease from a particular perspective for your entire life, but that perspective is literally hurting you and making it impossible for you to solve your health problems, it’s time to reach out in other directions to find alternative models of medicine.
You may not know much about herbs or reactive oxygen species medicines, but a serious disease can teach you about these things if you’re willing to learn. Diagnostic tests might fail to elucidate an underlying cause for your disease, yet you might find that a very broad-spectrum, affordable treatment like the Bob Beck protocol lessens the need for a specific diagnosis. Conventional medicine has artificial limitations that don’t exist in other systems of medicine. A commitment to explore all of the available options in the world will quickly reveal that there are no limitations in regard to healing the body. Time is the only real limitation in terms of healing. The body was meant to heal and treatments exist for every disease under the sun.
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